Sustainable Land Management, Wildfire Risk and the Role of Grazing in Mediterranean Urban-Rural Interfaces: A Regional Approach from Greece

Sustainable Land Management, Wildfire Risk and the Role of Grazing in Mediterranean Urban-Rural Interfaces: A Regional Approach from Greece

Mediterranean regions are likely to be the most vulnerable areas to wildfires in Europe. In this context, land-use change has promoted land abandonment and the consequent accumulation of biomass (fuel) in (progressively less managed) forests and (non-forest) natural land, causing higher fire density...

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Main Authors: Andrea Colantoni, Gianluca Egidi, Giovanni Quaranta, Roberto D’Alessandro, Sabato Vinci, Rosario Turco, Luca Salvati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Land
Subjects:
wildfires
peri-urban area
sheep
goats
mediterranean landscape
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/1/21

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